Re: gdm crash & restart problem

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

rob ZOOstation cc (2000-11-24 at 0559.59 -1200):

> > Hi, I have dug out some mutterings from during the summer while
> > doing an online search about this, suggesting that it was a
> > problem with xfs, although I can find no solution documented:
> I assume you have a linux cd, try to re-install the gdm system from the
> disk, if it's in rpm format you could try "rpm -e gdm" to remove gdm
> then "rpm -Uhv gdm-whaterve-your-system-calls-it.rpm"
> I had this exact same problem about 6 months ago, and I spent hours
> trying to sort it out, eventually I was able to re-instal all my gdm
> config fiels from a back up and this fixed it.

Config cleanups of the xfs or the basic X can also be needed. The best
way to know what is happening (or at least try to know) is to read the
files in /var/gdm/, they could have info about what is happening.
Files / dirs in /tmp/ sometimes are responsable of problems too, so
clean /tmp/.

GSR